Remeta, Mark wrote:

What is it that you are looking for? A graphical representation of how much
data is going to the tape drives? k/b per second, etc? If you do a q process
you can get the total bytes written so far... I for one don't need to know
how fast the data is being written to tape. I would rather the programmers
spend time fixing the problems that they introduce with each patch. My
.02...

Graphical would be nice, I'd settle for an API I could get the raw data
from myself.

Personalyy while the sentiment is nice that you'd rather the developers
spend time on fixing problems they introduce in their patches, If you've
ever had to diagnose & debug a problem with performance or operation, as
much data as possible about what's happening is invaluable.
If you can't get the data out of the system, you might as well use a
worse system, that at least you CAN see what's happening.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Hamish Marson [mailto:hamish AT TRAVELLINGKIWI DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:15 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Shortfalls in tsm/adsm


Hi.

reading a recent post on why people love tsm vs networker brought back a
lot of memories. Most of the great, but one that I just can't forgive.
There STILL appears (6 years after I broached the subject with the adsm
developers) to be no way to monitor in real-time what each of the tape
drives in the library is actually doing...

For example on Networker (And I know it's awful, I hate it as much as
the next geek who isn't enamoured by fancy GUI's etc) you can see
exactly what each drive is doing, AND HOW FAST IT'S DOING IT! Writing at
3.5MB/sec! Great. It's working fine. On tsm? Well there's manual mental
arithmetic and query proc if you feel brave...

Any chance I'm mistaken & the developers have actually fixed this
shortfall? Or at leats implemented a kernel table in their device
drivers so you can see the device stats like you can for hdisks?

TIA

Hamish.

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